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Orr to return for 2013-14 season as BGSU men's basketball coach (3-13-14) PDF Print E-mail
Written by By JACK CARLE, Sentinel Sports Editor   
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:29
Louis Orr will be returning as coach of the Bowling Green State University men’s basketball team for the 2013-14 season.
An athletics department spokesman confirmed Thursday afternoon BGSU would honor the final year of Orr’s contract.
Orr completed his sixth season as BG’s head coach with a 63-52 loss to Miami Monday night.
When he was hired as the head coach to replace Dan Dakich, Orr was given a five-year contract.
BG was 19-14 in 2008-09, Orr’s second year, and he received a two-year contract extension after that season.
The Falcons finished 13-19 this season and have had only one winning season in Orr’s six years. Overall, BG is 12 games under .500 in Orr’s six years at 89-101.
BG loses four seniors from the 2012-13 team, including leading scorers A’uston Calhoun and Jordon Crawford.
A total of seven scholarship players from this season’s team can return for the 2013-14 season.
In addition Josh Gomez, a 6-foot-10 transfer from Iona, will be eligible to play next season.
Also Zach Denny, a 6-2 guard from Valley View High School in Ohio; Garret Mayleben, a 6-9 forward from Milford (Ohio) High School; and J.D. Tisdale, a 6-5 guard from Swartz High School in Michigan, have signed national letters of intent to begin their collegiate basketball careers at BG for the 2013-14 season.
The Falcons have two scholarships which could be used to sign players for next season.
Last Updated on Friday, 15 March 2013 08:43
 

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# 2013-03-14 01:33
Coach Orr is a below .500 coach who seems to come up short in the big games. He should have never been given a contract extension after ONLY 1 winning season. Reminds me of when they gave Football coach Gary Blackney a 5 year extension and he proceeded to lose the next 5 years, but BG kept him because they didn't want to fire him and pay him the balance of his contract. By keeping Orr, they are going to kill any fan interest in the team next year --look for lots of empty seats.
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# 2013-03-14 09:22
Coach Orr has represented the University and the city of BG as a man of high character. I applaud the University for making good on the contract that they offered to him. I don't think I would have the dignity and grace to not respond to faceless (and spineless) online attacks such as Coach Orr has faced in the past few years. Good luck to him, and the Falcons ballers next year.
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# 2013-03-14 15:37
A privately funded buy-out of the first black basketball coach at BGSU, coming on the heels of the graffiti incident, while faculty fight the administration over pay hikes and job retention, would look really bad. We could see a situation similar to what we had with Laranaga. That is, he could win a regular season title next year and still be a coach many would rather see fired. If we are lucky, he does have a title winning season and somebody hires him away from us. He has represented the University, himself and the program with character and dignity. All things considered, it is fair enough to let him complete the contract. This is not entirely about wins and losses.
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# 2013-03-15 15:36
He's failed at his job. Race and intra-university politics should play no role. This is a disgrace of epic proportions on the part of the athletic department.
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# 2013-03-18 14:06
Quoting Bob:
He's failed at his job. Race and intra-university politics should play no role. This is a disgrace of epic proportions on the part of the athletic department.


This is the correct answer. Why is the university continuing to employ someone who has shown himself to be so totally inept at his job? This isn't about the color of his skin or what faculty positions have to be cut; this is about rebuilding a program that hasn't been to an NCAA tournament in more than 40 years, and just built a state of the art facility that is now sporting thousands of empty seats at most games. He should have been fired several years ago, and this action just compounds that mistake.
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# 2013-03-16 16:47
His repeated references to religion are inappropriate for a state university. He has shown that he lacks the ability to recruit effectively in this area. Time to move on.
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# 2013-03-24 15:35
Inappropriate? ... I thought free speech was the backbone of "higher education" -- oh unless you disagree with is being said. That's called liberalism.
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# 2013-03-18 15:03
Louis Orr is a nice guy and seems like a decent human being. but he's got to go. Not next year -- now. He's had six years to build a winner at BGSU and has failed, it's that simple.

Keeping him around as head coach is insulting to the fan base and will result in even more apathy spreading throughout the basketball community.
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